Stoke 2 down at one stage today against Palace (finished 2-2) would have secured promotion to Group 1 status and in with the big boys. But that point keeps the title celebrations on hold for another few days.
We have Villa up next on the 16th win that and we cant be caught promotion for this squad shows the Club as a whole is moving in the right direction.
Pity covid restrictions are still in place as im sure ye lads over there in Leeds would be out in force cheering them on.
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Jack Jenkins - what are other thoughts on him. Is he worth a chance off the bench in the middle of the park?
100% effort, high engine, good game I.Q. and decent passing range and defense.
Sadly not enough, despite a good performance
Leeds 1 - 3 Man City
City win the title with 2 games to spare - we need snookers with Chelsea behind us but with 3 games left to play and we only have 1 game in hand it looks a bit dodgy now.
Crowd of 21,000 is just ridiculous for the U23's. Well done all who went.
Amazing crowd, by not as amazing as Joseph's goal.
20 thousand crowd tonight
That's a strong xi Dan2
But i would prefer to see Shacks playing on Monday night, for me i thought he was ready especially towards the end of last season he was really flying on the first team but is he struggling to get over his injury? has his confidence taken a knock? i dont know but he seems to have stalled in his development.
18000 for an U23's game is just nuts ffs some Championship teams dont get that on a Saturday, brilliant and bright future for LUFC now lets hope Jesse can push us away from the bottom half of the PL table up into mid to top 8 in the coming years, and all the while developing & improving our underage teams.
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To be honest i am hoping to finally see a full strength under23's for this game. Imagine...
Klaesson
Sutcliffe, Cresswell, Hjelde, McCarron
Shackleton, Bates
Summerville, Greenwood, McKinstry
Gelthart
Dean comes on for Gelthart
Millar for Summerville
Allen or McGurk for Greenwood
Can't see Gelhardt, Greenwood or Summerville playing, they're part of the first team now and will be needed for Monday. Unlike Biesla, Marsch seems to have separated the squads and it remains to be seen whether he will follow El Loco's approach of playing recovering senior players in the u23s. Even without them we've a strong team - Klaesson, Sutcliffe, Hjelde, Cresswell, McCarron, Kenneh, Bate, McKinstry Dean, Joseph, Miller. Bench - Van den Heuvel, Moore, Jenkins, Allen, McGurk.
Over a record attendance 18,000 tickets sold for the u23s v Citeh tomorrow evening at Elland Road .... 👏👏👏👏
Just hope we can put out a decent team with our first team playing Palace on Monday.... obviously that is more important but don't want our youngsters to be stuffed in front of a crowd that big!
The likes of Klaesen, Cresswell, Hjelde, Strujik, Firpo, Shacks, Bate, Forshaw, Geldhart, Greenwood, Summerville could play as they are only likely to be on the first team bench at best.... maybe Hattrick may even play some part if he's supposedly available for the last few games?
Good luck Leeds u23s!!
All over finished 2-2 Joe Snowdon in the 92min to grab a point.
Needed to win todays game imho, but look at least we didnt lose, a point is better than nothing.
U18s in action versus blunderland 75mins gone 1-1
Luca Thomas scored the equaliser after 26mins
We really need to beat them to open up a gap between us in the table
over 13,000 tickets sold now for the City game
Is Ryan Edmondson still injured I know he came back
Beaten by Brighton. That said they were very good and solid team. Big too. We were dcent and had some good chances, particularly one from McGurk which just didn't want to go in. But it just wasn't our day. Some positives - Joseph looks to be fitting in and has a touch of class, Bate can play anywhere in midfield and has that extra creativity. Sutcliffe was good attacking down the right.
It's also clear Gelhardt, Greenwood and Summerville are now first squad players. I don't think we will see them again playing for the u23s.
Hopefully we can put out a good side with the first team not playing til Monday v Palace.... still a bit tight I suppose with Cresswell, Hjelde, Geldhart, Greenwood, Summerville and maybe Bate on the bench.
And still 8 days to go to sell more tickets....!! 👏👏👏👏
Me too!
Oh crap.
I thought it was 7:00pm - so I log in late and there's 5 mins left..... and we're losing 5-1 😣